Wist is an app that lets parents capture immersive, spatial video of their children’s milestones using an iPhone’s depth sensors, then view those memories in mobile AR or on headsets like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. The platform records depth, device pose, and raw sensor data, automatically enhancing the footage over time so memories improve with each software update.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Parents often struggle to preserve everyday moments of their children in a way that feels vivid and lasting, relying on flat video or photos that quickly lose emotional impact and cannot be experienced immersively.
Solution
Wist enables families to capture everyday events as spatial videos using a Pro‑model iPhone, automatically recording depth, device pose, and audio alongside the video. The raw capture is synced across devices and stored in the cloud, where a reconstruction pipeline continuously enhances the data, improving resolution and fidelity over time. Users can view these memories in mobile AR on an iPhone or experience full immersion with headsets such as Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest. Because the underlying sensor data is retained, each memory can be re‑processed as the enhancement algorithms improve, creating a persistent, updatable 3‑D memory library that can be shared across generations.
Target Audience
Wist is aimed at parents and families who want to create immersive, long‑lasting digital memories of their children’s milestones, as well as tech‑savvy relatives who use AR/VR headsets to relive those moments.
Features
- Automatic capture of depth, device pose, and spatial audio during video recording on iPhone 13 Pro or newer
- Cloud‑based storage of raw sensor data with continuous enhancement pipelines for higher‑resolution reconstructions
- Multi‑device playback: mobile AR navigation on iPhone and full‑immersion viewing on Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest headsets
- Seamless syncing of captures across a family’s devices for instant access and sharing
- Tagging and location metadata to organize moments and enable easy retrieval
- Lock‑screen quick access and import tools for integrating existing videos into the spatial library